Additional Programs

DIS – RUPT (dĭs-rŭpt′) — To break apart or alter
so as to prevent normal or expected functioning.

Very little if anything happens in our own development and growth unless an old pattern is disrupted. Sometimes disruptions are unavoidable and stressful. Other times, we actually plan them. Vacations, retreats and workshops come to mind. ESPÍRITU offers a selection of programs limited only by your imagination. Any individual or small group can work with us to design a program, a pleasurable disruption, that will leave you excited, enthused and ready for the next step in your journey.

Urban Youth Leaders

Close Encounters with Horses & the Natural World

Have you ever felt like you just needed to get out of where you are, take a group of young people with you and taste a very different, more liberating way of living? Technology and digitally connecting with others unite us in ways that are different than before. Twenty-four hour news coverage bombards us even when we think we’re immune. The increase in the pace and complexity of life as well as the rise in spontaneous and unpredictable violence can fragment our lives, and make the challenge of growing to adulthood a very risky and uncertain proposition.

Dan consults with the faculty leadership team of Equality Charter School in the Bronx and volunteers at Tenor High School, an urban high school in Milwaukee. One essential ingredient missing for many of our young people is exposure to the natural world. One encounter with horses in an idyllic, natural setting can dramatically affect the quality of both your own relationships and those of your youth group going forward. What horses offer is unconditional acceptance of who we are. What they want and respond to is our unconditional openness to and acceptance of what they are. One taste of this exchange can change everything! For everyone.

As someone working with young people, you have probably seen how children come into the world as little bundles of curiosity and wonder; everything is new and everything new awakens excitement and awe. Then, something sad happens to much of this curiosity: it disappears or gets tampered with and distorted into something else. And, if you work with young people you also know there is a brilliant light in the center of their heart; it is time to awaken it and bring it more fully into their life. Horses open up doorways to our original curiosity and light, extraordinary human gifts with which we came into life. Now is your time to taste these in yourself and in those you serve!

Available in half-day to one day packages. No prior experience with horses is required.

For those who are passionate about young people, you’ll leave with …

  • A fun and exciting day with horses and your young friends in a safe setting
  • Ways of modulating or playing with your own energy, gaining flexibility and awareness
  • First-hand experience seeing what positive encounters with horses does to your relationships with your group and with their relationships with each other
  • Different ways of connecting to and building trust with horses
  • A renewed sense of what’s possible for you now and with your youth group
  • A day of wonder as you and your young people step outside normal life and taste a different, more refreshing way to live now

Inspire your group to step outside normal life and taste a different, more refreshing way to live.


This is a group program requiring a minimum of 2 participants. Please call us at (414) 405-6892 if there are less in your party.

Urban Youth Leaders

Close Encounters with Horses & the Natural World

Have you ever felt like you just needed to get out of where you are, take a group of young people with you and taste a very different, more liberating way of living? Technology and digitally connecting with others unite us in ways that are different than before. Twenty-four hour news coverage bombards us even when we think we’re immune. The increase in the pace and complexity of life as well as the rise in spontaneous and unpredictable violence can fragment our lives, and make the challenge of growing to adulthood a very risky and uncertain proposition.

Dan consults with the faculty leadership team of Equality Charter School in the Bronx and volunteers at Tenor High School, an urban high school in Milwaukee. One essential ingredient missing for many of our young people is exposure to the natural world. One encounter with horses in an idyllic, natural setting can dramatically affect the quality of both your own relationships and those of your youth group going forward. What horses offer is unconditional acceptance of who we are. What they want and respond to is our unconditional openness to and acceptance of what they are. One taste of this exchange can change everything! For everyone.

As someone working with young people, you have probably seen how children come into the world as little bundles of curiosity and wonder; everything is new and everything new awakens excitement and awe. Then, something sad happens to much of this curiosity: it disappears or gets tampered with and distorted into something else. And, if you work with young people you also know there is a brilliant light in the center of their heart; it is time to awaken it and bring it more fully into their life. Horses open up doorways to our original curiosity and light, extraordinary human gifts with which we came into life. Now is your time to taste these in yourself and in those you serve!

Available in half-day to one day packages. No prior experience with horses is required.

For those who are passionate about young people, you’ll leave with …

  • A fun and exciting day with horses and your young friends in a safe setting
  • Ways of modulating or playing with your own energy, gaining flexibility and awareness
  • First-hand experience seeing what positive encounters with horses does to your relationships with your group and with their relationships with each other
  • Different ways of connecting to and building trust with horses
  • A renewed sense of what’s possible for you now and with your youth group
  • A day of wonder as you and your young people step outside normal life and taste a different, more refreshing way to live now

Inspire your group to step outside normal life and taste a different, more refreshing way to live.


This is a group program requiring a minimum of 2 participants. Please call us at (414) 405-6892 if there are less in your party.

RESTORE

An equine retreat series for health care & other essential workers

We are living through a global pandemic that has altered virtually every aspect of our lives. Throughout this time nurses have covered every shift, every day in ICU’s, hallways, emergency rooms, recovery rooms, and in makeshift tents in parking lots. These heroes had to protect themselves and safe guard their families, some choosing to live elsewhere, away from their own support system. Sadly, even with these precautions, many lost and others continue to lose their lives. For some people, the politicizing of COVID called into question the validity of medical science itself.

Nurses attend to their patients’ physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. Whatever recovery we’ve made has come on the backs of these professionals who daily offer their lives so the rest of us can live ours. You’d expect we would be filled with gratitude. Sometimes, this is the case but often it is not. Nurses are seldom seen as the cornerstone for our health care system.

RESTORE is a non-riding experience with masterful horses at a horse ranch. We see it as the best way to restore energy, vitality, hope and connection. Walking alongside horses in a natural setting lifts exhaustion and alleviates moments of burnout and resentment. Horses have a unique way of reminding us that our own health and wellbeing are necessary prerequisites for being there for others.


YOU are the core resource that needs to be nurtured,
safe guarded and cared for.



What you can expect in a Restore retreat …

  • Time with horses at a horse ranch in southeastern Wisconsin (no experience needed)
  • Authentic conversations about managing stress & conflict in helpful ways
  • Learning reasonable ways of handling unreasonable people
  • Activities to help you re-set, center and remain grounded throughout the day
  • A safe and supportive time to go deeper and explore soulful possibilities
  • A fun, energizing day with colleagues, seasoned coaches and magnificent horses

This is a group program requiring a minimum of 3 participants. Please call us at (414) 405-6892 if there are less in your party.

» Also available as an Event

The Landing Zone

An equine retreat series for military vets

Military service is a unique creature known only to those of us who served and to our families. Within this experience there are many varieties. Stateside versus overseas deployments. Combat versus non combat. Front line versus support personnel. What all have in common is an immersion in a way of living often far removed from civilian life, a strong mission-centered mindset coupled with the acquisition of skills which are not readily transferable to the world we return to. It’s as if we speak a different, alien language. The Landing Zone series is a non-riding program designed as a safe place for vets to share experiences and partner with each other to take our next steps into the best version of ourselves.

Change and transitions work best when the destination and current position are both known. Sometimes, though, one or both of these points is unclear or murky. We are asked by life to face the unknown and keep moving. There often is considerable pressure applied to conform to prescribed ways of thinking, living and working. The price of belonging can compromise what we know is the life uniquely our own. Nobody wants to be successful living another’s life; we’d rather fail at our own.

What you can expect in The Landing Zone …

  • Time with horses at a horse ranch in southeastern Wisconsin
  • Authentic conversations about life, work, relationships and change with other vets
  • Activities to help you re-set, stay centered and grounded in the midst of turmoil
  • A time to challenge yourself with new learning in a new environment with horses (no experience required)
  • A safe and supportive time to go deeper and explore soulful possibilities
  • An energizing day with colleagues, seasoned coaches and magnificent horses

A safe place for vets to share experiences and partner with each other.


This is a group program requiring a minimum of 3 participants. Please call us at (414) 405-6892 if there are less in your party.

» Also available as an Event

RESTORE

An equine retreat series for health care & other essential workers

We are living through a global pandemic that has altered virtually every aspect of our lives. Throughout this time nurses have covered every shift, every day in ICU’s, hallways, emergency rooms, recovery rooms, and in makeshift tents in parking lots. These heroes had to protect themselves and safe guard their families, some choosing to live elsewhere, away from their own support system. Sadly, even with these precautions, many lost and others continue to lose their lives. For some people, the politicizing of COVID called into question the validity of medical science itself.

Nurses attend to their patients’ physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. Whatever recovery we’ve made has come on the backs of these professionals who daily offer their lives so the rest of us can live ours. You’d expect we would be filled with gratitude. Sometimes, this is the case but often it is not. Nurses are seldom seen as the cornerstone for our health care system.

RESTORE is a non-riding experience with masterful horses at a horse ranch. We see it as the best way to restore energy, vitality, hope and connection. Walking alongside horses in a natural setting lifts exhaustion and alleviates moments of burnout and resentment. Horses have a unique way of reminding us that our own health and wellbeing are necessary prerequisites for being there for others.


YOU are the core resource that needs to be nurtured,
safe guarded and cared for.


What you can expect in a Restore retreat …

  • Time with horses at a horse ranch in southeastern Wisconsin (no experience needed)
  • Authentic conversations about managing stress & conflict in helpful ways
  • Learning reasonable ways of handling unreasonable people
  • Activities to help you re-set, center and remain grounded throughout the day
  • A safe and supportive time to go deeper and explore soulful possibilities
  • A fun, energizing day with colleagues, seasoned coaches and magnificent horses

This is a group program requiring a minimum of 3 participants. Please call us at (414) 405-6892 if there are less in your party.

» Also available as an Event

The Landing Zone

An equine retreat series for military vets

Military service is a unique creature known only to those of us who served and to our families. Within this experience there are many varieties. Stateside versus overseas deployments. Combat versus non combat. Front line versus support personnel. What all have in common is an immersion in a way of living often far removed from civilian life, a strong mission-centered mindset coupled with the acquisition of skills which are not readily transferable to the world we return to. It’s as if we speak a different, alien language. The Landing Zone series is a non-riding program designed as a safe place for vets to share experiences and partner with each other to take our next steps into the best version of ourselves.

Change and transitions work best when the destination and current position are both known. Sometimes, though, one or both of these points is unclear or murky. We are asked by life to face the unknown and keep moving. There often is considerable pressure applied to conform to prescribed ways of thinking, living and working. The price of belonging can compromise what we know is the life uniquely our own. Nobody wants to be successful living another’s life; we’d rather fail at our own.

What you can expect in The Landing Zone …

  • Time with horses at a horse ranch in southeastern Wisconsin
  • Authentic conversations about life, work, relationships and change with other vets
  • Activities to help you re-set, stay centered and grounded in the midst of turmoil
  • A time to challenge yourself with new learning in a new environment with horses (no experience required)
  • A safe and supportive time to go deeper and explore soulful possibilities
  • An energizing day with colleagues, seasoned coaches and magnificent horses

A safe place for vets to share experiences and partner with each other.


This is a group program requiring a minimum of 3 participants. Please call us at (414) 405-6892 if there are less in your party.

» Also available as an Event

The Leadership Circle 360

Combining Deep Development with Equine Partnership

We use the TLC 360 with many of our clients and the TLC Collective Leadership Assessment with leaders who want to consciously create a leadership culture in their organizations. These instruments are simply the most powerful leadership assessment instruments available today. Many clients take the assessment prior to working with horses as a way to pinpoint those developmental areas they then wish to explore with our horse partners. Issues of power and control, reactive patterns of protecting our heart and vulnerabilities, finding and standing in our authentic voice as well as deepening our leadership presence and impact are the kinds of topics this assessment uncovers that horses are able to help with. We highly recommended this.


Move towards the kind of leader you aspire to be.


The 360 assessment offers you …

  • An accurate and potentially transforming ‘snapshot’ of your current leadership style and the impact you have on others
  • Ways to immediately begin moving towards the kind of leader you aspire to be
  • An introduction to a spiritually holistic model of leadership that celebrates and makes space for all of who you are — your hopes, dreams, and longings as well as your doubts, fears and insecurities. Welcome to the club of real people
  • A view of yourself that you may never have seen before and assistance forging a way forward that builds on your natural strengths and capabilities.

Weekend Packages

A Treat for Adventurous Travelers

If you are traveling or vacationing in the Chicago-Milwaukee area consider spicing up your time away with an exciting 2-4 hour session with horses. Just being in their presence is enough to bring adventure and a spark of fun into your trip! This is a non-riding adventure, open to those with little or no experience with horses as well as seasoned horse people.

This little getaway will leave you with …

  • New adventures to share and stories to take home! You’re on vacation. Need we say more?
  • Direct experiences with amazing animals and practice communicating with them in ways that may surprise you
  • A well-deserved break from normal life that revitalizes, restores and excites you.
  • A brief step into the natural world and a taste of your life at a different pace, while breathing more deeply and thinking and feeling in ways you may have forgotten.
  • Experiment with living in a different rhythm with other beings — horses — showing you how

Bring adventure and a spark of fun into your trip!


The Leadership Circle 360

Combining Deep Development with Equine Partnership

We use the TLC 360 with many of our clients and the TLC Collective Leadership Assessment with leaders who want to consciously create a leadership culture in their organizations. These instruments are simply the most powerful leadership assessment instruments available today. Many clients take the assessment prior to working with horses as a way to pinpoint those developmental areas they then wish to explore with our horse partners. Issues of power and control, reactive patterns of protecting our heart and vulnerabilities, finding and standing in our authentic voice as well as deepening our leadership presence and impact are the kinds of topics this assessment uncovers that horses are able to help with. We highly recommended this.


Move towards the kind of leader you aspire to be.


The 360 assessment offers you …

  • An accurate and potentially transforming ‘snapshot’ of your current leadership style and the impact you have on others
  • Ways to immediately begin moving towards the kind of leader you aspire to be
  • An introduction to a spiritually holistic model of leadership that celebrates and makes space for all of who you are — your hopes, dreams, and longings as well as your doubts, fears and insecurities. Welcome to the club of real people
  • A view of yourself that you may never have seen before and assistance forging a way forward that builds on your natural strengths and capabilities.

Weekend Packages

A Treat for Adventurous Travelers

If you are traveling or vacationing in the Chicago-Milwaukee area consider spicing up your time away with an exciting 2-4 hour session with horses. Just being in their presence is enough to bring adventure and a spark of fun into your trip! This is a non-riding adventure, open to those with little or no experience with horses as well as seasoned horse people.

This little getaway will leave you with …

  • New adventures to share and stories to take home! You’re on vacation. Need we say more?
  • Direct experiences with amazing animals and practice communicating with them in ways that may surprise you
  • A well-deserved break from normal life that revitalizes, restores and excites you.
  • A brief step into the natural world and a taste of your life at a different pace, while breathing more deeply and thinking and feeling in ways you may have forgotten.
  • Experiment with living in a different rhythm with other beings — horses — showing you how

Bring adventure and a spark of fun into your trip!


Awaken Your Soul

Life begins with change. Embark on a new beginning today!

Awaken Your Soul

Life begins with change. Embark on a new beginning today!

Espíritu Horse & Human Partnerships
Milwaukee, WI

‍(414) ‍405-6892
‍(860) ‍983-8203

© 2021 Espíritu Horse & Human Partnerships

Espíritu Horse & Human Partnerships
Milwaukee, WI

‍(414) ‍405-6892
‍(860) ‍983-8203

© 2021 Espíritu Horse & Human Partnerships